hi and welcome to the mario awards. i'm sure you already know what we do here. they are awards about mario. nabber told me to write about how inspiring the users here are and i have to agree with him; i think i'll save most of the commendations and awards for the closing speech, but i greatly enjoyed most of the presentations so far this year

Hello people. I am Cirdec. I will have the honour to start the Mario awards with the favorite original soundtrack award. I can tell you this award got lots of voters. We have no less than 36 other options from the poll. Let's see the results for these first:

Super Mario Bros. 3 takes the last place. Considered as one of the best Mario games ever made, it unfortunalety did not get good rank. Strange for me because I think it has good musics. Lots of them will be remixed in the next Mario games, such as athletic theme, airship theme, toad house theme, etc.

Donkey Kong Country 2 gets fifteen. The game is very similar to Donkey Kong Country, the same mechanics. The notable new features are the possibility to transform in animals in certain levels. Personally, I find Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 3 to have a better soundtrack. But it still has good music.

The fourth place belongs to Super Mario RPG. This game was the first Mario RPG ever made, but unfortunately it was not released in Europe. They had to wait twelve years to get the game released on virtual console. I did not play much this game, but as all Mario RPG, it has memorable music theme, Beware the Forest's Mushrooms is a good example.

Paper Mario got thirteen. This game introduced a new series, the Paper Mario games. RPG game where every character is in 2D. In this one, Bowser steal the star rod and kidnaps Peach, because of his new powers, he managed to defeat Mario without trouble. Mario had to save the seven star spirits to have a chance to defeat him. The final battle with him has an epic music.

Yoshi's Island is twelve. First Mario platformer where the main character is actually Yoshi, also one of the three games using the super FX. It is one of my favorite games, it has great soundtrack. Unfortunately the remake, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, remixes the music to an inferior quality. For copyright issues about the super FX, it is very unlikely than Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island will be released on virtual console someday. Hence non veterans don't know the soundtrack of this game.

Eleven for Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. I did not buy the game, but after hearing some of its music, it has some remix from Donkey Kong Country, which has a great soundtrack. Here I chose the remix of Aquatic Ambiance, the music which made water levels so enjoyable.

Super Paper Mario comes tenth. Although being a paper Mario game, the formula changed to this game, no turn based battle as the two previous games, however, it still has many elements of them. I did not buy this game because of this change, but the game is still considered as a great Paper Mario with a deep story.

Super Mario World for ninth place. First game of Super Nintendo, with no less than 96 levels with the new feather powerup and the introduction of Yoshi. Great game often rhyms with great music. Super Mario World hasn't a lot of music tracks, but lots of them are good and will be remixed in future Mario games.

8 for Mario Kart... 8. What, Mario Kart 8 was not even in the contestants, but it sill managed to grab the eight place. How incredible, the game got released very recently and the soundtrack is already loved. Mario Kart 8 is the first Mario Kart to have orchestred music, resulting in some great tracks. The main theme is one of the best Mario Kart theme ever made.

7 for Mario Kart 7. Such a coincidence, well actually the votes between the two Mario Kart games were tied, but for style sake you understand the ranks. Mario Kart 7 as the name implies, was the seventh Mario Kart released, on the 3DS. The game introduced vehicule customization with the choice of the body, the wheels and the glider. It also features underwater and air sections. Even if the game was rushed to be out for Christmas, it has great soundtrack, as the one in the video.

The third Mario & Luigi RPG is sixth. This game can be considered as the closest thing to Bowser's own game because you can control him, his role is as important as the Mario brothers. I personally find the first two Mario & Luigi to have a better soundtrack than this, but still, it is good quality. Such as the boss theme.

The second Paper Mario is on top five. This game has a very large soundtrack. Listening to all of them would take at least three hours. And of course, for Paper Mario standard, it has great music. It was hard to choose one, but I decided to add the boss theme of chapter 3, one of the longest and best chapter. A game you must play if you did not yet.

Fourth place for Super Mario 64. This game is the first Mario platformer 3D, it introduced the genre. It was a close close to perfection upon its release. Long, great levels, excellent controls and of course memorable music. Like Super Mario World, it doesn't have many tracks but all of them are good. It was hard to choose one but I decided to choose Endless stairs. One of my favorite tracks, which may remind your memory if you ever tried to cross the infinite stairs for minutes when you hadn't 70 stars.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 earns the bronze place. After the first adventure in space in Super Mario Galaxy, Galaxy 2 does that again. This time Mario is helped by Lubba, he becomes the captain of Lubba's ship and travel around galaxies to save Peach from Bowser. Lots of elements from the first game are reused, and includes Yoshi, new powerups, green stars and more. It is useless to say since the Mario Galaxy orchestra made the music, the game has a excellent soundtrack, with a large quantity of songs. Lots of them are memorable, I chose Fluffy Bluff Galaxy as it is one of my favorite themes with has some similarities with Gusty Garden Galaxy.

The silver place is for the newcomer Super Mario 3D World. Currently the most recent Mario platformer, the story consists of Bowser kidnapping the seven sprixies. Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad work together to save them. It opts for Super Mario 3D land style, which consist of 3D levels but the objective is to go to the flag. The signature of this game is the multiplayer, 4 characters are playable at the same time. This is the first 3D Mario game to feature this. With lots of worlds, the stamps and green stars to collect, the game is pretty long to 100%. This is also the first 3D Mario game where Rosalina is a playable character. As a Mario platformer, the rule is always the same, good music. It totally respects it, as some of the tracks are played by an orchestra. Nintendo even release The Mario 3D World Big Band, an album which gather all musics in the game.

Again, the gold place is rewarded to Super Mario Galaxy. This time the adventure does not take place in the mushroom kingdom or in Delphino Island but in the sapce. Bowser kidnaped Peach and took her somewhere in the universe and stole the power stars. Rosalina, a new character, mother of the lumas and commander of the observatory, will help Mario to travel around galaxies to get power stars in order to save Peach. This is the first Mario platformer where the staff hired an orchestra to play the musics of this game. As a result, lots of the soundtracks are excellent qualities. Each music fits very well the galaxy. The theme I choose here is one, if not the best theme we had in Mario games. You can hear many remixes of this theme, such as Purple Coin level theme, Fluffy Buff Galaxy theme, Champion Road theme, World S theme, in the Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 credits and so on. Nintendo decided to release Super Mario Galaxy: Original Soundtrack, the game soundtrack which features 81 tracks, as an exclusive from club Nintendo members. As the award winner, I highly recommend you to get that soundtrack if you can.

This is the end of the A1 award. That's for listening it, I hope you liked all the musics I played. See you for my other presentation about the best Mario Party game.